[4525] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Creeping /
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carpenter, Dean (MS Mail))
Fri Nov 15 10:33:49 1996
From: "Carpenter, Dean (MS Mail)" <dcarpenter@kraft.com>
To: "redhat-list%redhat.com@internet.kraft.com" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 09:18:17 -0600
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>Sent: Thursday, November 14, 1996 10:15 AM
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>Subject: Creeping /
>
>My / partition,device,file has expanded and become 100% full, and very
>little will work now. Is there a fix for this?
>
>Why does this happen?
>
>I've got a 30 MB extended partition set aside for /. That should, surely,
>be big enough for almost anything I might want to do. This is home
>single-user machine.
Is that the only partition ? Couldn't be ... Remember, everything
under / that isn't on a separate partition will be on that / partition.
In particular, /tmp, /var/tmp and /var/log - files in here tend to grow
...
--
Dean Carpenter
dcarpenter@kraft.com
deano@areyes.com
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